Ronald

Darn, all the time I spent working for a living, I could have been out on the beach witnessing to hot surfer girls and listening to the beach boys sing about them. I guess I should have stayed awake more in church.

Workingmom

Why can't you all just be nice? He is a Christian and he speaks the word if God. Whether by land or beach its the same thing. For the record there are both males and females that surf and spread the word if God. It's not sexist.

CommonSense101

Why can't a person find a way to put two or more things together that he/she enjoys and create a life doing it without judgment from others? If he was preaching the word to the stereotypical hard working business owners who do their thing from 9 to 5, there probably wouldn't be all of these negative comments. Do you not think surfers work too? Own businesses? Are intellectual? Capable of praying if they wish? Geez people, lighten up.

HillTopWV

Taxes are collected to pay for public services of various kinds. Preaching superstitious nonsense at surfers (or anyone) serves no public purpose, and does actual harm, yet these people are subsidized by the state (i.e., the people) with tax exemptions and all kinds of special privileges. That's poor public policy.

HillTopWV

Your mind is so polluted by your particularly warped religion that you don't seem to appreciate that public policy is, or should be, to promote the public good. Righteousness doesn't really enter into the fray, unless you use the word to mean the same thing as the public good or justice, and I don't think you have the public good in mind at all.

I think you'll have to be the one to tell us what gay rights have to do with elementary schools, etc. It seems to be a topic you're very oddly concerned about.

Bullhead

You state, "Taxes are collected to pay for public services of various kinds. Preaching superstitious nonsense at surfers (or anyone) serves no public purpose, and does actual harm, yet these people are subsidized by the state (i.e., the people) with tax exemptions and all kinds of special privileges. That's poor public policy."

There's a lot of opinion in that statement. Have churches done more harm or good in our nation's history?

So should all tax exemptions be revoked for all non-profits?

Here's an idea, get rid of the repressive and politically-manipulated income tax and most of the problems would dissolve.